Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-06-11
A BIG PROPERTY.
NOUN HOPE DISTRICT

4 VI JIG
road-An Interesting Description
OF the District and Mines.
Mr.. Hope District is % miles by
railroad northwesterly from Eureka.
The mountain from which the district
takes its name rises steep and bold out
of the low ridge OF mountains that lie
on the west side OF Diamond Valley,
and forms a prominent landmark. The
mountain is almost exclusively fels-
pathic porphyry. The principal mines
are situated on the southeast slope,
near the base of the mountain, and
about a mile and a quarter west OF the
Eureka & Palisade railroad. The de-
scent from the mines to the railroad
is gentle, a little sleeper a part OF the
way than Main street in Eureka.
From the principal mine, the Bachel-
der, named after the good-looking and
good-natured assayer of the Richmond
Company, and from the mouth of the
tunnel, of which we shall speak fur
ther along, there is a good wagon road
| to the railroad, all of the way down
hill. The weight of a load of ore,
therefore, hauled away from either
place to the railroad, depends on the
strength of the wagon, and not OF the
team hauling it. Work has been pros
ecuted steadily upon the Bachelor
for several years, principally above the
water level, and a small amount OF
good ore has been taken out and sold,
i and also a considerable amount Of low
grade ore. One large shaft has been
sunk to a depth of 80 feet. In this
shaft, at a depth of 40 feet, ore was
struck, picked pieces of which assayed
nearly 81, 900 per ton. Out of this ore
body a small quantity was assorted
and sold, that assayed over 5000 a ton.
From the top of this shaft drifts have
been driven to the east several hun
bred feet, and a drift to the northwest
100 feet. To the east of the shaft a
winze was sunk 40 feet, and below the
water line at that point. Out of this
winze, and the drift running from it,
a considerable amount of ore, heavy
in lead, and of fair grade in silver, was
Extracted and sold to the Richmond
Company. From the shaft hereinbe-
fore described, drifts were driven to
the northwest at depth of forty, sixty
and ninety feet, respectively, all of
them yielding some good ore. The
mine is cut by a ravine, and in this
ravine the parties who located the
mine several years since sunk a shaft.
in which some good lead ore was found.
The shaft was abandoned on account
of water. About 40 feet north from
this shaft, on the hillside, the present
owners sunk another shaft so feet deep.
In this shaft a small quantity of
good lead ore was found, but
not in paying quantity. From this
) shaft a Dirt was driven northerly IS
feet. At this distance a body of fair
grade ore was found, and some of it
was taken out by tributers. Latterly
> the drift from the 60-foot level of the
, main shaft has been continued to the
/. northwest, cutting this ore body at a
depth of about 80 feet from the sur
face. From this drift a winze has
been sunk 40 feet. From this body
ore is now being taken out steadily,
and at the bottom of the winZe it is
; looking very promising. This Wine
, will be sunk to a depth of so or 60 feet.
} From this point, there seems but lit
tie doubt that a steady supply of ore
for our furnaces will come in the fu-
ture.
| The many hundreds of feet of shafts,
! that have been sunk, and drifts that
have been run, are all in ore, chiefly
low grade, but from the assays of ore
sold, blasted down and sent to the
furnaces without asserting, it is fair
estimate, to say that the whole mass
will average So a ton in silver, eight
per cent lead, and a trile in gold.
The ore is soft and friable. The
gangue is light and the mineral heavy.
1t is accessible, and can be quarried
out for fifty cents a ton, and tens of
thousands of tons are exposed in the
shafts and drifts, and on the surface.
One pair of Krom rollers will crush
one hundred tons a day of such stuff.
These facts are suggestive of what
will eventually be done on this mine
by concentration.
AS depth is gained, the ore steadily
improves in value. Oxidation and
teaching has done its work very
effectually for the first hundred feet
from the surface, silver and lead alike
have been oxidized and carried away.
Large quantities of cerussite found in
the lower workings, tell the story OF
galena oxidized and dissolved above
and redeposited below as a carbonate.
The owners are now convinced that
their greatest treasures lie below, and
in order to reach them, a shaft has
been sunk to the south of the
main shaft a short distance, to a depth
of IS feet. On this shaft a Baker iron
horsepower hoist is being placed.
With this hoist work can be done to a
depth of 800 feet. As soon as the
hoist is in place this shaft is to be
sunk 100 feet deeper, and levels are to
be driven off under the best ore bod
les found in the upper workings.
Besides the ore bodies described,
many smaller ones were found in the
various shafts and levels in the mine,
which W. have not space to enumer-
ate.